community.google.gcp_storage_file lookup – Return GC Storage content

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.google collection (version 1.0.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.google.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.google.gcp_storage_file.

Synopsis

  • This lookup returns the contents from a file residing on Google Cloud Storage

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

  • python >= 2.6

  • requests >= 2.18.4

  • google-auth >= 1.3.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auth_kind

string / required

The type of credential used.

Choices:

  • application

  • machineaccount

  • serviceaccount

bucket

string

The name of the bucket.

env_type

string

Specifies which Ansible environment you’re running this module within.

This should not be set unless you know what you’re doing.

This only alters the User Agent string for any API requests.

project

string

The Google Cloud Platform project to use.

scopes

list / elements=string

Array of scopes to be used.

service_account_contents

jsonarg

The contents of a Service Account JSON file, either in a dictionary or as a JSON string that represents it.

service_account_email

string

An optional service account email address if machineaccount is selected and the user does not wish to use the default email.

service_account_file

path

The path of a Service Account JSON file if serviceaccount is selected as type.

src

string

Source location of file (may be local machine or cloud depending on action).

Notes

Note

  • for authentication, you can set service_account_file using the c(gcp_service_account_file) env variable.

  • for authentication, you can set service_account_contents using the c(GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CONTENTS) env variable.

  • For authentication, you can set service_account_email using the GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL env variable.

  • For authentication, you can set auth_kind using the GCP_AUTH_KIND env variable.

  • For authentication, you can set scopes using the GCP_SCOPES env variable.

  • Environment variables values will only be used if the playbook values are not set.

  • The service_account_email and service_account_file options are mutually exclusive.

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: |
         the value of foo.txt is {{ lookup('community.google.gcp_storage_file',
         bucket='gcp-bucket', src='mydir/foo.txt', project='project-name',
         auth_kind='serviceaccount', service_account_file='/tmp/myserviceaccountfile.json') }}

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Key

Description

_raw

list / elements=string

base64 encoded file content

Returned: success

Authors

  • Eric Anderson

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.